Richard Harris Barham - The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were th

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

- Richard Harris Barham

source: 'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

topic: Dream, Book, Knights, Squires, Friars, Primates